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CommonJS, along with the npm registry, has become the de-facto standard in Frontend and NodeJS development today. But Native ES Modules are coming to NodeJS and the browser. read less On the surface, they look incredibly similar to CommonJS modules, but the differences are important. In this talk I will describe these differences, the consequences of these differences, and how to start preparing for the new world of Native ES Modules. Why is this talk important? Because Native ES Modules _are_ coming. And everybody will be talking about them in 2019. And we need to be prepared, for it _is_ going to be a difficult transition, because the differences are subtle and they bite.